More of The Same!

1 of many Gannets around today

08.00-10.00 from the fishing boats with RW:

Brent Goose: 4 down
Common Scoter: 15 down.  15 up
Red-throated Diver: 23 down.   9 up
Great-crested Grebe: 6 on sea
Fulmar: 1 down.     1 up
Gannet: 121 down
Cormorant: 1,000+ around
Turnstone: 9 around
Great Skua: 1 down
Caspian Gull: regular 1w bird around
Kittiwake: 171 down
Guillemot: 1,320 down
Razorbill: 880 down
Auk sp: 430 down
2 visits to The Patch produced more of the above and a few colour rings. 14 Meadow Pipits, 5 Pied Wagtails and 2 Linnets were around the sewage plant.
At Scotney the 2 Tundra bean geese were sleeping among the Greylags.

My daily dose of Caspian Gull

This afternoon at the fishing boats was much the same as this morning

Red-throated Diver: 9 down.  6 on
Great-crested Grebes: c250 off shore
Gannets: c150 feeding offshore
The regular 1w Caspian Gull
Kittiwakes: c50 feeding offshore
Guillemotsc200 feeding off shore
The reserve was fairly quiet though the 1w Glaucous Gull put in an appearance on Burrowes.
Late afternoon at the ARC I joined young Jack Headley in Hanson hide, where a Great White Egret and a few Little Egrets flew through to roost, 200+ Wigeon were on the lake, also a couple of Goldeneye, by the hide a Chiffchaff and a couple of Goldcrests. The Black-throated Diver was seen earlier but not while I was there and the Bewick Swans let me down by not coming into roost despite waiting till dark.
Elsewhere a Slavonian Grebe was on the New Diggings and 3 Smew including the drake were at Christmas Dell.